Abstract: Grassroots governance is often faced with the lack of initiatives， universality and persistence for public participation. Based on the relationship between daily life and governance， the perspective of lifestyle-based participation is put forward to point out that people's participation in public affairs as the personal lifestyle can make participatory governance work effectively. Through the case story of residents who organize cycling teams for exercise to realize people's participation in social governance， it can be found that: the spontaneity of daily life can cultivate people's participatory motivation and realize active participation; the interactivity of daily life can expand people's participatory network and realize universal participation; the circulation of daily life can form the habits of participation and realize long-term participation. Through supplying behavioral resources and authoritative confirmation， effective participation may further improve people's life， making this pattern operate smoothly. Lifestyle-based participation reexamines the adaptability of western discourse of the dichotomy between politics and life into Chinese governance fields， and inherits the great traditions of the mass line in the history of the Communist Party of China.

Key words: participatory governance; daily life; lifestyle; grassroots governance; public participation